Nia Morrish
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Public Health Economics
N.G.Morrish@exeter.ac.uk
01392 72 7079
South Cloisters 1.11
South Cloisters, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU, UK
Overview
Nia is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Economics. Her research considers the impact of loneliness on health and social care, with a particular focus on young adults. She also has interests in patient preferences and valuation of health and quality of life outcomes. Nia joined the Health Economics Group as a Graduate Trainee Assistant in 2018 assisting in a number of ongoing projects across the department. Prior to joining the team Nia completed degrees in economics alongside undertaking internships with both central and local government departments.
Qualifications
- BA Economics and History, University of York (2016)
- Graduate Diploma in Economics, University of Bristol (2017)
- MSc Economics, University of Exeter (2018)
Career
2018-19 - Graduate Trainee Assistant in Health Economics
2019-20 - NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2020-22 - NIHR Health Technology Assessment
2022-23 - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Economics
2023-Present - Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Health Economics
Research
Research interests
Nia's research considers the impact of loneliness on health and social care, with a particular focus on young adults. She also has interests in patient preferences and valuation of health and quality of life outcomes. She has expeience in discrete choice experiments and economic evaluation for trials in sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent mental health, and dementia.
Research projects
2018-2019 - Graduate Trainee Assistant. Two feasibility trial-based economic evaluations and a psychometric assessment of generic preference based masures.
2019-2020 - NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Investigating loneliness, health and unemployment: systematic reviews and observational data analysis through propensity score matching.
2020-2022 - NIHR HTA project. 'Evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of gynaecological surveillance for women with Lynch syndrome: systematic reviews and economic evaluation'.
2022-2023 - 'A comparison of usual care versus usual care plus a smartphone self-harm prevention app (BASH) in young adolescents aged 12-17 who self-harm.'
2022-2023 - 'A randomised controlled trial to reduce the burden of malaria and curable STIs / RTIs in Zambia: the ASPIRE trial.'
2023-present - 'Dementia person aligned care team (D-PACT) - dementia support study feasibility trial.'
2022-present - 'The clinical, social and cost effectiveness of a decision support tool to optimise community-based tailored management of sleep for people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and sleep disturbance TIMES –TaIlored ManagEment of Sleep.'
2023-present - 'Social Prescribing for people to Live ENjoyably with Dementia/memory problems In Daily life (SPLENDID).'
2023-present - 'A cluster randomised trial to evaluate the effectiveness of household alcohol-based handrub for the prevention of sepsis, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Ugandan infants (BabyGel).'
Research grants
- 2019 National Institute for Health Research
NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Research investigated the interactions between loneliness, health and the economy. Training included causal inference, qualitative research methods, questionnaire design.